Live Event: Discussing Food Fads With the New York Times Podcast Club

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Are you a podcast obsessive? If so, take a break from your earbuds to attend a live meetup of the New York Times Podcast Club, a weekly geek-out over the best in on-demand audio. We’ll listen to a buzzed-about episode over drinks, then hear the episode’s creators discuss the ins and outs of how it was made with Samantha Henig, The New York Times’s editorial director of audio.

In this edition, we tune into Buzzfeed’s “See Something Say Something” to learn about food fads and the reappropriation of global cuisines. What does it mean when a celebrity promotes eating a daily spoonful of ghee, a clarified butter often used in South Asian cooking, for wellness? How do our food obsessions affect those who make it, regularly consume it or grew up with it? Dig into these and other questions with host Ahmed Ali Akbar and producer Meg Cramer at this multisensory live event.

General admission is $20, but Times Insiders can get a $5 discount here.